Here's Nancy Lee DeMauze.

God's heart is for the nations, for the peoples of the world, for the earth will be filled

with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, May 2, 2014.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

I can remember when I was a little girl that in our family's breakfast room, we had a large map of the world up on the wall,

and it had pins on it that represented different missionaries that our family was

involved in supporting with pieces of yarn that went off to the outside of that map,

with pictures of those missionaries.

And my family would regularly read letters from these

who were serving Christ in other parts of the world and would pray for them. And I'm so thankful that

from my earliest years, the Lord put in my heart a burden to see the gospel go forth to the

nations of the world. And that's God's heart. to the nations of the world.

And that's God's heart.

His heart is for the world.

His heart is for the nations.

I was reading earlier today from Psalm 67 that says,

may God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us.

Now, that's a great prayer, and that's the revival heart

of revive our hearts, that God would bless us, that he would cause his face to shine upon us.

But that is not just for our own enjoyment and our own benefit. What's the result of that?

Verse 2 says, so that your way may be known on earth, your saving power

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